materialistic

Example Sentences

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Leahy suggests a thought exercise to counteract materialistic envy: “Imagine everything has been taken away,” he says, including all of your possessions.

From Seattle Times

It’s less tangible and less materialistic than the Mercedes her husband had long wished for and something that, in the end, only she can provide for herself.

From Washington Post

While translating Poe's works into French in the 1850s and 1860s, the French poet Charles Baudelaire promoted his hero as a kind of countercultural visionary, out of step with a moralistic, materialistic America.

From Salon

“These purchases as young, relatively broke food people were like our prized possessions. Badges of honor and commitment — not just materialistic vanity. We were speaking each other’s love languages,” Plowman says.

From Seattle Times

We each buy a little from the lists, and the kids, whom I’ve raised not to be terribly materialistic, get everything on their lists.

From Washington Post